Holder for window-shade brackets



(No Model.)

A. B. DUNKLE.

HOLDER FOR WINDOW SHADE'BRAGKETS.

No. 394,644. Patented'Dec. 18, 1888.

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ABRAM B. DUNKLE, OF STEELTON, PENNSYLVANIA.

HOLDER FOR WINDOW-SHADE BRACKETS.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 394,644, dated December 18, 1888.

Application filed May 15, 1888. Serial No. 273,924. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ABRAM B. DUNKLE, a citizen of the l nited States, residing at Steelton, in the county of Dauphin and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Holders for \Vindow-Shade Brackets, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in holders for window-shade brackets; and it has for its object to simplify, cheapen, and improve the construction, and adapt them to be applied to any bracket-bar.

The invention consists in a certain novel construction and arrangement of devices, fully set forth hereinafter in connection with the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved holder applied to a portion of a bracketbar and having a bracket engaged therein. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the blank from which the improved holder is formed. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of the holder detached from the bracket-bar.

Referring to the drawings, A designates the bracket-bar, which is adapted to be attached to the window-frame in any approved manner, and to the end of the bar is secured the holder 13, having a base-plate, provided with the ears I) D at its upper and lower edges, which are secured to the upper and lower edges of the said bracket-bar. A tongue, E, is cut from the interior of the plate, and is bent upward or outward and then parallel with the plate to form a pocket, F, and integral points G G (which are cut from the free edge of the said tongue) extend inward from the free edge of the opening H in the plate to form the rear side of the pocket. An upturned flange, I, is formed 011 the outer edge of the base-plate a short distance from the free edge of the tongue E, and a small stud or stop, K,is arranged at the lower end of the said flange.

To secure the bracket L in the holder, pass the base M thereof down into the pocket until its lower end strikes the stud or stop K and the shank N passes up between the free edge of the tongue and the flange.

The bracket may be raised vertically out of the holder; but it cannotbe removed in any other way, and therefore it is not liable to be accidentally detached from the bar.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the l'nited States, is

1. A sheet-metal attachment to the ordinary bracket-bar, A, comprising the holder B, formed of a single piece of sheet metal secured rigidly to said bar and adapted to receive the roller-bracket L, said holder having the tongue E struck up from the body of the holder, and the integral flange I, bent outward from the side of the holder adjacent to the free end of the tongue, but separated. therefrom sufficiently to allow the reception of the roller-bracket, as set forth.

2. A sheet-metal attachment to the ordinary bracket-bar, A, comprising the holder B, formed of a single piece of sheet metal secured rigidly to said bar and adapted to re ceive the roller-bracket L, said holder having the tongue E struck up from the body of the holder, and the integral flange I, bent outward from the side of the holder adjacent to the free end of the tongue, but separated therefrom sufliciently to allow the reception of the roller-bracket, and the integral stud or stop K, bent outward from the body of the holder for the roller-bracket to rest upon, as set forth.

3. The herein-described roller-bracket holder, comprising the plate C, the integral tongue E, struck from the interior of the plate, the integral points (i' on the free edge of the opening from which the tongue is struck, the integral flange I adjacent to the free edge of the tongue, the stud or stop at the lower end of the said flange, and the ears D D, adapted to be secured to the upper and lower edges of a bracket-bar, respectively, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

In testimonythat I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ABRAM B. DUNKLE.

\Vitnesses:

JAcoB REIGART, P. H. LESHER. 

